The imaginative faculty in engineering

Industrial Engineering Department Dokuz Eylül University Engineering Faculty İzmir, Turkey

The flange climb derailment is one of the cause of derailment for a typical switch. The derailment for the switch is a complex phenomenon since the contact area is changing dynamically. The contact angle between the wheel flange and the switch point is investegated in terms of the risk on the derailment. The contribution of this study is proving that UIC716R standard recommendation about the sw...

The imaginative mind.

The astounding capacity for the human imagination to be engaged across a wide range of contexts is limitless and fundamental to our day-to-day experiences. Although processes of imagination are central to human psychological function, they rarely occupy center stage in academic discourse or empirical study within psychological and neuroscientific realms. The aim of this paper is to tackle this ...

Faculty of Electrical Engineering

With the increasing need to incorporate more complex mixed-signal controller for switched mode power supplies, CMOS compatibility becomes a very important consideration for monolithic DC-DC converters. This paper examines the different power output stage designs and identifies the key device characteristics such as onresistance, gate capacitance, switching speed that ensure optimized power conv...

OF WATERLOO Faculty of Engineering Nanotechnology Engineering

The Faculty of Engineering and Science

This project, which was written at " Instituto Superior Técnico " (ISR) in Lisbon, Portugal, addresses the improvement of a goalkeeper for the " RoboCup Middle Size League ". The goalkeeper is one of four robots in the team at ISR. Each of the robots are controlled using a set of behaviours according to the role of each robot in the team. The set of behaviours and their relations is defined in ...